156, Lot: 59. Estimate $100. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Apameia. Circa 166-133 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.62 g). Struck circa 150-140 BC. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Bow-case with serpents; to the right, Dioscuri cap with palm to the right. Kleiner & Noe Series -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, small depression on obverse, as made. Unpublished symbol with the palm, the usual Dioscuri cap is topped by a star (Kleiner-Noe Series 21). See CNG Sale 58, lot 629 for another example from the same obverse die.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.